Next day was overcast with drizzle and a grey haze covered any view. Good idea then to visit the Zeppelin Museum http://www.zeppelin-museum.de/846.html which is in the beautifully restored harbor railway station in Friedrichshafen built in 1933.
I had a vague idea about the airship LZ 127 - Graf Zeppelin because two of my uncles were involved in the building of this airship between 1926 - 1928. But I learned that there was a regular transatlantic passenger service from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, New Jersey. Very popular for those who could pay for a ticket, because the crossing took only 111 hours! The comparison of a model of the Zeppelin to a modern airplane was impressive.
If you watch this 80 minutes documentary assemblage produced by BBC Four and narrated with the text of Lady Grace Drummond-Hay it brings you back to the pioneering flight around the world in the Zeppelin 1929. http://youtu.be/d4jq7oRxw-g
